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If you possess enough time and money, there are dozens if not hundreds of worthy executive education programs vying for your attention. A cool job would be to evaluate these programs for a living.

I would start with an innovative program launching this summer in India and the U.S. by two of the world’s top business schools, called the Global Leaders Program: Growing and Innovating in a Flat World. Students will spend eight days in Ahmedabad, India, followed by eight days in North Carolina. The program is staffed by professors from the Indian Institute of Management - (IIM-A) and Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.

Sounds cool, but for US$19,000 it had better deliver the goods, right?

The program will include interactive sessions with both Indian and American business leaders. A key takeaway is that participants will be asked to create and present a leadership plan that has to stand up under multicultural scrutiny.

One of the key advantages of a program like this is an intangible - networking. “Part of the role of this program is not just learning it’s also networking - you meet people from the rest of the world who are leaders,” says S. “Vish” Viswanathan, Robert L. Dickens Professor of Finance at Fuqua.  

If you are a manager with global aspirations but little international experience, you should evaluate whether executive education will better prepare you to realize your ambitions. There is still plenty of time to sign up for the Global Leaders program: Session 1 is in India, August 20-27; followed by Session 2: USA, Sept. 17-24.

Do you plan to attend any cool educational programs this summer? Would you check out this program if you had means to do it?